News - Five PSP-compatible PS1 titles now available on PS3
Posted by Josh Freund at 08:31:03 PM EST on 12.4.2006.

Sony today joined Microsoft and Nintendo in offering classic titles on their next-gen consoles, with the release of five PS1 titles. It's a decent initial selection consisting of a platformer, a stealth/action title, a fighting game, and a couple sports titles. Here's the list:

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Crash Bandicoot
Hot Shots Golf 2
Syphon Filter
Tekken 2

The games cost a reasonable $5.99 a-piece. Unfortunately, none of them include multiplayer capabilities. The games cannot be played on the PS3; rather, they're meant to be transferred to the PSP for play. This can be done with a USB cable after the games are purchased and downloaded onto the PS3 from the PlayStation Store.

You'll need anywhere from 157 MB of free memory on your memory card for the smallest title (HSG 2) to 535 MB for the largest (Tekken 2). As a nice plus, you can transfer a game to another PSP 5 times before it becomes locked, meaning you and your friends could get the whole set cheap with some collaboration.

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i like the being able to transfer to another PSP 5x....but after 5x, will it lock yours also and can you re-download it (for free maybe) if you get a new PS3???

Couldn't they have released better games? I fail to see the point in releasing older versions of games that have next-gen sequels. Those titles aren't exactly "classics" that everyone and their mother wants to play.

Here's an interesting idea: how about making some good, original PSP games?

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Most of those go towards the DS with it's higher fan base and the fact that Nintendo's been doing handheld for years. Combine this with Sony being ******ed with what games they'll port over here, and you have a pretty worthless system.

How about this, instead of paying to download Tekken 2, go out and buy Tekken 5, it's like $20 now, and there you get to play Tekken 2, as well as Tekken 1 and Tekken 3. That's $5 a Tekken, sounds like a good deal to me.